Three Cranbrook men convicted in a complex murder plot were sentenced in Kamloops Friday to terms ranging from five and a half to 12 years.
Lonnie Adams, Colin Correia, and Lorne Carry were all convicted by a jury in April of counselling to kill rival drug dealer Doug Mahon in 2009.
Carry and Correia were also convicted of conspiracy to commit murder, while Adams was acquitted on that count.
Carry was found guilty of possessing and transferring an AK-47-style automatic rifle. Correia was also convicted of possessing and attempting to transfer a restricted handgun.
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Dev Dley sentenced Correia to 12 years for his role in the case, minus five and a half years pre-trial credit. Carry got a 10 year sentence and Adams was handed time served, which equaled a five and a half year jail term.
The Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit launched an undercover investigation in 2009 into the deadly feud between drug gangs with significant links to organized crime throughout the Kootenay and southern Alberta regions.
Sgt. Lindsey Houghton said Friday that the jail terms will send a strong message against the violence that impact public safety.
“As the convictions reinforced, these men had no regard for public safety and were willing to go to great lengths to further their criminal enterprises and eliminate competition,” Houghton said. “CFSEU-BC is pleased that they have been held accountable for potentially putting lives, and a community, at risk.”
A police agent employed by CFSEU testified that he had been hired by Adams, Carry and Correia to kill Mahon, who had been linked to an earlier shooting outside a Cranbrook hotel.
The simmering feud also led to the murders of two innocents – LeaAnne MacFarlane, 43, and Jeff Taylor, 42 – who were renting a house in which Mahon had previously lived. No one has been charged in their deaths.
Both sides in the gang feud had links to Metro Vancouver bikers, police said when the trio was charged in November 2010.

11 Comment(s) for Cranbrook murder conspirators sentenced in Kamloops

Those 2 innocent people were my sons grandparents!! I don’t know why noone has been charged, heartbreaking for their family!! I hope the person thinks about it and comes forward, how would they feel if that was their parents or grandparents!!!

Kim! How can you say that these people were murdered by Mistake and post their picture? There have been no arrests and no convictions for the murder of The MacFarlanes. E-Portamento, the case that just wrapped up at Bar in Kamloops is a Conspiracy to Commit the Murder of a Cranbrook Man. It was an act not committed. I sat through the entire E-Portamento Trial by Jury and The Supreme Court Charter Rights applications. I know Crown herself stated that there was no evidence to link these two Crimes! It is The RCMP who linked them at the time of arrests in October of 2010. There was no arrest then and there have been no arrest to this day for that crime.. You want to report the facts Kim, report that in E-Portamento the Crowns star witness was an RCMP Criminal Agent Vetted by CSFEU. He was paid for his testimony and given deals to avoid prosecution for murders, gun possessions, torture, drugs, robberies and parole violations. Just days befor trial the “Agent” confessed to murder then proceeded to confess to involvement in another invoking the evidence act while on the stand to protect himself against prosecution. The RCMP and Crown set a murderer free to convict 3 men in E-Portamento a case in which nobody even got punched out! For our courts to demand 5, 10 and 12 year jail sentences in this case sets a dangerous and dark precedent in Canadian law. One that screeches ever closer to a Police State. The RCMP fired Gary Shank before the trial for deceit and untrustworthiness among other things, Crown still presented him to a Jury of Peers as a credible witness, one endorsed by a Vetting process. His Lordship endorsed Gary Shank as generally credible and gave the RCMP grounds to ignore, in particular, Parole Law. I truly Believe that without crown and court endorsing Gary Shank as credible, arrests for E-Portamento would have been impossible. The McFarlene murder has NOTHING to do with E-Portamento. Get ready to cover the appeals Kim Bolan and shame on you for not reporting on the trial! . I am very curious why you didn’t report on one of the largest trials in the country allegedly involving “Gangs” in BC. Did it have something to do with the RCMP Abuse of Authority and protection of a ” schizophrenic scumbag” paid and protected by them? Or is it the fact that the public would be outraged to know that Gary Shanks walks free and 3 men were convicted to spend decades in jail. I wonder how Gary Shanks Victims of spousal abuse, torture, robbery and fraud feel? I wonder how the families of those whom Shank murdered feel? I wonder how they feel that this murderer and violent lifelong criminal walks free! How can the authority of the RCMP absolve him of responsibility for murder, among other things, and how could they remunerate and protect him for lies?

I did report facts. And I earlier reported on Shank and how the judge upheld the conduct of the police in the case. If these guys appeal and win, I’ll report that too. I never said who killed the two innocents, but police did believe their deaths were linked to the gang war brewing at the time and that’s what I reported in this update.

Kim! How can you say that these people were murdered by Mistake and post their picture? There have been no arrests and no convictions for the murder of The MacFarlanes. E-Portamento, the case that just wrapped up at Bar in Kamloops is a Conspiracy to Commit the Murder of a Cranbrook Man. It was an act not committed. I sat through the entire E-Portamento Trial by Jury and The Supreme Court Charter Rights applications. I know Crown herself stated that there was no evidence to link these two Crimes! It is The RCMP who linked them at the time of arrests in October of 2010. There was no arrest then and there have been no arrest to this day for that crime.. You want to report the facts Kim, report that in E-Portamento the Crowns star witness was an RCMP Criminal Agent Vetted by CSFEU. He was paid for his testimony and given deals to avoid prosecution for murders, gun possessions, torture, drugs, robberies and parole violations. Just days befor trial the “Agent” confessed to murder then proceeded to confess to involvement in another invoking the evidence act while on the stand to protect himself against prosecution. The RCMP and Crown set a murderer free to convict 3 men in E-Portamento a case in which nobody even got punched out! For our courts to demand 5, 10 and 12 year jail sentences in this case sets a dangerous and dark precedent in Canadian law. One that screeches ever closer to a Police State. The RCMP fired Gary Shank before the trial for deceit and untrustworthiness among other things, Crown still presented him to a Jury of Peers as a credible witness, one endorsed by a Vetting process. His Lordship endorsed Gary Shank as generally credible and gave the RCMP grounds to ignore, in particular, Parole Law. I truly Believe that without crown and court endorsing Gary Shank as credible, arrests for E-Portamento would have been impossible. The McFarlene murder has NOTHING to do with E-Portamento. Get ready to cover the appeals Kim Bolan and shame on you for not reporting on the trial! . I am very curious why you didn’t report on one of the largest trials in the country allegedly involving “Gangs” in BC. Did it have something to do with the RCMP Abuse of Authority and protection of a ” schizophrenic scumbag” paid and protected by them? Or is it the fact that the public would be outraged to know that Gary Shanks walks free and 3 men were convicted to spend decades in jail. I wonder how Gary Shanks Victims of spousal abuse, torture, robbery and fraud feel? I wonder how the families of those whom Shank murdered feel? I wonder how they feel that this murderer and violent lifelong criminal walks free! How can the authority of the RCMP absolve him of responsibility for murder, among other things, and how could they remunerate and protect him for lies?